"This becomes apparent if we think of a cycle of
action as a learning cycle. The learning cycle has four phases. It begins with
(1) a spontaneous or unconscious action, such as a child reaching out and
touching a hot stove. The pain causes (2) immediate withdrawal, or unconscious
reaction, followed by (3) an awareness that the stove caused pain, a conscious
reaction, followed by (4) future avoidance of hot stoves, a conscious action or
control. Thus the child learns. If the experience is not learned, the cycle
repeats until it is, after which the child moves to a higher level involving
more complex or longer-term cycles, always incorporating what he or she has
learned and building a hierarchy of automatic reactions controlled by the
brain.
Consciousness
is always at the leading edge of that growth process, always pressing on. This
lays the basis for higher consciousness. There is a consciousness appropriate
for each level of interaction, from that of nuclear particles to that of the
higher organisms, and there is no reason to suppose that it stops there.
It is important to point out that the
learning cycle includes consciousness and action. No matter how expert we
become, we still have something to learn, and that learning or consciousness
comes only after an exploratory action has exposed some error. We can then
rectify the action and get on with it. The physicist may not be good at
philosophy, but he or she can at least make mistakes and possibly learn from
them. The philosopher has no way to recognize whether a mistake has been made.
The vocabulary of science has shown us that intention has a proper place in the
formalism of physics, and by emphasizing the cycle of action it becomes
possible to obtain a model for the growth of consciousness, and with it the
evolution of life."
~From the essay Science, Spirit and the Soul, by
Arthur Young
We, as a global
collective of individuals have got to start putting the importance of individuals
above the institutions. Otherwise
institutions will roll right over us all.
Otherwise oligarchical collectivism will continue.
Refuse. Resist.
Relax. Take conscious action and discontinue
support of corrupt oligarchical collectivism as much as possible. Conscious action in politics is peaceful and even
compassionate resistance to oligarchical collectivism.
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